15 And they went after them unto Jordan, and lo, all the way was full of clothes and vessels which the Aramites had cast from them in their haste: and the messengers returned, and told the king.

16 Then the people went out and spoiled the camp of the Aramites: so a measure of fine flour was at a shekel, and two measures of barley at a shekel [a]according to the word of the Lord.

17 And the king gave the prince (on whose hand he leaned) the charge of the gate, and the people [b]trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, which spake it, when the king came down to him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 7:16 Which he spake by the mouth of Elisha, verse 1.
  2. 2 Kings 7:17 As the people preased out of the gate to run to the Syrian’s tents, where they had heard was meat, and great spoil left.

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